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{{Short description|Indian writer (1942–2019)}}
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{{Infobox writer
| name = Kiran Nagarkar
| image = Kiran Nagarkar - Leipziger Buchmesse 2013.jpg
| caption = 2013 – at the bookfair of Leipzig, Germany
| birth_date = {{birth date|1942|04|02|df=yes}}
| birth_place = [[Bombay]], [[Bombay Presidency]], [[British India]] (now [[Mumbai]], [[Maharashtra]], [[India]])
| death_date = {{death date and given age|2019|09|5|77|df=yes}}
| death_place = [[Mumbai]], [[Maharashtra]], India
| occupation = {{hlist|Novelist|dramatist|screenwriter}}
| movement = [[Indian literature|Indian]]
| awards = [[Sahitya Akademi Award]],<br/>[[Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany|Order of Merit of Germany]]
| spouse = Tulsi Vatsal
| influences =
| influenced =
| website = {{url|https://kirannagarkar.com/}}
}}
'''Kiran Nagarkar''' (2 April 1942 – 5 September 2019) was an Indian novelist, playwright and screenwriter. A noted drama and film critic, he was one of the most significant writers of [[Independence of India|post-colonial]] India.<ref name=sa>[[#Sa|Sanga, p. 177]]</ref>

Amongst his notable works are ''Saat Sakkam Trechalis'' (tr. ''Seven Sixes Are Forty Three'') (1974), ''Ravan and Eddie'' (1994), and ''[[Cuckold (book)|Cuckold]]'' (1997) for which he was awarded the 2001 [[Sahitya Akademi Award]] in English by the [[Sahitya Akademi]], India's National Academy of Letters.<ref name=sa/><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.sahitya-akademi.gov.in/old_version/awa10304.htm#english |title=Sahitya Akademi Awards 1955–2007: English |website=-[[Sahitya Akademi]] Official website |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100611080633/http://www.sahitya-akademi.gov.in/old_version/awa10304.htm |archive-date=11 June 2010 |access-date=30 April 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=In Conversation: The artful storyteller |url=http://www.hindu.com/lr/2006/03/05/stories/2006030500320100.htm |work=[[The Hindu]] |date=5 March 2006 |access-date=24 November 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081104231349/http://www.hindu.com/lr/2006/03/05/stories/2006030500320100.htm |archive-date=4 November 2008 |url-status=dead }}</ref> His novels written in English have been translated into German. In 2012, he was awarded the [[Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany]].<ref name=ani/>

==Personal life==
Nagarkar was born on 2 April 1942 in Bombay, now [[Mumbai]], in a middle-class [[Marathi people|Maharashtrian]] family, the younger of two sons to Sulochana and Kamalkant Nagarkar.<ref name="rediff2006">{{cite news |title=Kiran Nagarkar: God's little soldier |url=http://specials.rediff.com/news/2006/may/02kiran1.htm |access-date=6 September 2019 |work=rediff.com |date=2 May 2006}}</ref><ref name="Mint5Sep2019"/><ref name="NYTimes">{{cite news |last1=Bhagat |first1=Shalini Venugopal |title=Kiran Nagarkar, Novelist Who Chronicled Mumbai Life, Dies at 77 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/11/books/kiran-nagarkar-dead.html |access-date=19 September 2019 |work=The New York Times |date=11 September 2019 |pages=1–21 |archive-date=12 September 2019 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20190912055751/https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/11/books/kiran-nagarkar-dead.html |url-status=live }}</ref> His grandfather, B. B. Nagarkar, was a [[Brahmo Samaj|Brahmo]] and had attended the 1893 [[Parliament of the World's Religions]] in Chicago.<ref>{{cite news |title=Unapologetically Nagarkar |url=https://www.harmonyindia.org/people_posts/unapologetically-nagarkar/ |access-date=6 September 2019 |work=Harmony Magazine}}</ref>
He studied at [[Fergusson College]] in [[Pune]] and the [[South Indian Education Society|S.I.E.S. College]] in [[Mumbai]].<ref name="HinduDeath" /><ref name="Mint5Sep2019">{{cite news |title=Sahitya Akademi awardee novelist Kiran Nagarkar dead |url=https://www.livemint.com/news/india/sahitya-akademi-awardee-novelist-kiran-nagarkar-dead-1567707443501.html |access-date=6 September 2019 |work=[[Mint (newspaper)|Mint]] |date=5 September 2019 |language=en}}</ref> He graduated with a bachelor's degree in 1964 and a master's degree in [[English literature]] in 1967. After that, he worked as an advertising copywriter for 15 years.<ref name="NYTimes"/>


From June to November 2011 he was 'writer in residence' at the Literaturhaus Zurich and the PWG Foundation in Zurich.<ref>{{cite web |author=Angela Schader |work=[[Neue Zürcher Zeitung]]|url=http://www.nzz.ch/nachrichten/kultur/zuercher_kultur/die_einsamkeit_des_humoristen_1.10979803.html|title=Der indische Romancier Kiran Nagarkar ist Zürichs neuer "writer in residence" |language=de |date=20 June 2011 |access-date=20 June 2011}}</ref>

He was married to Tulsi Vatsal, sister of industrialist Anand Mehta.<ref name="HinduDeath" /><ref>{{cite news |title=Humour and honours |url=https://ahmedabadmirror.indiatimes.com/ahmedabad/cover-story/humour-and-honours/articleshow/36085910.cms |access-date=6 September 2019 |work=Ahmedabad Mirror |date=12 November 2012 |language=en}}</ref> Nagarkar was a life-long critic of the establishment and stood by his political views throughout his literary career.<ref name="Mint22Jun2019"/>

He was admitted to hospital on 2 September 2019, after suffering a [[brain haemorrhage]] at a friend's place during celebrations for the [[Ganesh Chaturthi]] festival.<ref name="born storyteller" /> He remained in a coma for two days and died on 5 September 2019.<ref name="HinduDeath">{{Cite news |url=https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/sahitya-akademi-awardee-novelist-kiran-nagarkar-dead/article29344962.ece |title=Sahitya Akademi Award-winning writer Kiran Nagarkar dies at 77 |last=Vij |first=Gauri |date=6 September 2019 |work=The Hindu |access-date=6 September 2019 |language=en-IN |issn=0971-751X}}</ref>

==Novels==
Nagarkar is notable among Indian writers for having written acclaimed novels in more than one language. His first novel, ''Saat Sakkam Trechalis'' published in [[Marathi language|Marathi]] in 1974, was translated into English by Shubha Slee in 1980 and published in 1995 as ''Seven Sixes Are Forty Three''.<ref name="Banned3" /> It is considered a landmark work of [[Marathi literature]].<ref name="harmonyindia">{{cite web |title=Unapologetically Nagarkar, Harmony Magazine |url=https://www.harmonyindia.org/people_posts/unapologetically-nagarkar/ |access-date=6 September 2019}}</ref> His novel ''Ravan and Eddie'', begun in [[Marathi language|Marathi]] but completed in English, was not published until 1994.<ref>{{cite news |title=The terrorist is inside us |url=http://www.tribuneindia.com/2006/20060415/saturday/main1.htm |work=The Tribune |date=15 April 2006 |access-date=13 March 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110605230813/http://www.tribuneindia.com/2006/20060415/saturday/main1.htm |archive-date=5 June 2011 |url-status=live }}</ref>
Since ''Ravan and Eddie'', all Nagarkar's novels have been written in English and also translated into [[German language|German]].<ref name="born storyteller">{{cite news |title=Kiran Nagarkar - The born storyteller no more |url=https://www.mid-day.com/articles/the-born-storyteller-no-more/21686010 |access-date=7 September 2019 |work=mid-day |date=6 September 2019 |language=en |archive-date=25 September 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190925204738/https://www.mid-day.com/articles/the-born-storyteller-no-more/21686010 |url-status=live }}</ref>

His third novel, ''Cuckold'', based upon the mystic [[Meerabai]]'s husband, [[Bhoj Raj]], was published in 1997 and won the 2001 [[Sahitya Akademi Award]]. It took him nine years to write his next, ''God's Little Soldier'', a tale of a liberal Muslim boy's tryst with religious orthodoxy, which was published in 2006, to mixed reviews.<ref>{{cite news |title=The Soldier Reads |url=http://www.outlookindia.com/glitterati.aspx?543 |work=[[Outlook (Indian magazine)|Outlook]] |date=24 April 2006 |access-date=13 March 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101029161804/http://outlookindia.com/glitterati.aspx?543 |archive-date=29 October 2010 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=LITERATURE: The light and the tunnel |url=http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/mp/2006/04/13/stories/2006041301200100.htm |work=[[The Hindu]] |date=13 April 2006 |access-date=13 March 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110606120310/http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/mp/2006/04/13/stories/2006041301200100.htm |archive-date=6 June 2011 |url-status=usurped }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Review:A Fancy Bird Too Heavy To Fly |author=Shashi Tharoor |url=http://www.outlookindia.com/article.aspx?231150 |date=8 May 2006 |work=[[Outlook (Indian magazine)|Outlook]] |access-date=13 March 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100811094036/http://outlookindia.com/article.aspx?231150 |archive-date=11 August 2010 |url-status=live |author-link=Shashi Tharoor }}</ref>

In 2012, he published ''The Extras'', a sequel to ''Ravan and Eddie'' that traces the adult lives of Ravan and Eddie in Bollywood. The third and last book in the series, ''Rest in Peace'', was written in 2015.<ref name="HinduDeath" />

His 2017 novel, ''Jasoda'', is the story of a young women and mother, trying to raise her children in the arid lands of Kantagiri. Jasoda shows every lamentable tradition in the hinterlands in stark clarity. It is a testimony, according to the author, to the millions of women in the parched and scorched regions of India and find themselves between a rock and a husband.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Anantharaman |first1=Latha |title=She who shrugs and carries on: Jasoda by Kiran Nagarkar reviewed by Latha Anantharaman |url=https://www.thehindu.com/books/she-who-shrugs-and-carries-on-jasoda-by-kiran-nagarkar-reviewed-by-latha-anantharaman/article22142565.ece |access-date=2 March 2021 |work=The Hindu |date=23 December 2017 |language=en-IN}}</ref>

His 2019 novel, ''The Arsonist'', is a re-imagining of the life of [[Kabir]], the 15th-century Indian mystic poet and saint. It also critiqued the rise of Hindu majoritarianism in India.<ref name="Mint22Jun2019">{{cite news |last1=Kohli |first1=Diya |title='I'm not trying to deny it has affected me': Kiran Nagarkar |url=https://www.livemint.com/mint-lounge/features/-i-m-not-trying-to-deny-it-has-affected-me-kiran-nagarkar-1561176759612.html |access-date=7 September 2019 |work=[[Mint (newspaper)|Mint]] |date=22 June 2019 |language=en |archive-date=6 September 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190906163240/https://www.livemint.com/mint-lounge/features/-i-m-not-trying-to-deny-it-has-affected-me-kiran-nagarkar-1561176759612.html |url-status=dead }}</ref>

==Plays and screenplays==
In 1978, Nagarkar wrote the play ''Bedtime Story'', based partly on the [[Mahābhārata]]. Its performance was extra-legally [[ban (law)|banned]] for 17 years by [[Hindu nationalist]]<ref name="Banned3">{{cite news |last1=Tripathi |first1=Salil |title=When Kiran Nagarkar said the unsayable |url=https://www.livemint.com/Leisure/2izXvQjOpQm0hFGPz0vdIK/When-Kiran-Nagarkar-said-the-unsayable.html?facet=amp |access-date=6 September 2019 |work=www.livemint.com |agency=[[Mint (newspaper)|Mint]] |publisher=[[HT Media]] |date=28 February 2015 |language=en |archive-date=6 September 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190906054822/https://www.livemint.com/leisure/2izxvqjopqm0hfgpz0vdik/when-kiran-nagarkar-said-the-unsayable.html?facet=amp |url-status=live }}</ref> [[fundamentalist]] parties,<ref name="Banned1">{{cite news |title=Award-winning author Kiran Nagarkar dies |url=https://mumbaimirror.indiatimes.com/mumbai/other/award-winning-author-kiran-nagarkar-dies/articleshow/71001678.cms |access-date=6 September 2019 |work=Mumbai Mirror |agency=[[Mumbai Mirror]] |issue=2 |publisher=[[The Times Group]] |language=en}}</ref> including the [[Shiv Sena (1966–2022)|Shiv Sena]],<ref>{{cite news |last1=Tejuja |first1=Vivek |title=Kiran Nagarkar's 'Bedtime Story and Black Tulip' a terrific read |url=https://www.news18.com/news/books/book-review-bedtime-story-and-black-tulip-975182.html |access-date=6 September 2019 |work=www.news18.com |agency=[[News18]] |publisher=[[Network18 Group]] |date=20 March 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Dutta |first1=Amrita |title=The bilingual bard of Bombay and Mumbai, Kiran Nagarkar gave Indian writing in English an electric charge |url=https://indianexpress.com/article/india/kiran-nagarkar-dead-english-writer-the-bilingual-bard-of-bombay-and-mumbai-5970829/lite/ |access-date=6 September 2019 |work=The Indian Express |agency=[[The Indian Express]] |publisher=[[Indian Express Group]] |date=6 September 2019 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Joshi |first1=Poorva |title=Mumbai is indifferent to the rest of the country: author Kiran Nagarkar |url=https://www.hindustantimes.com/art-and-culture/we-just-don-t-care-for-mumbai-anymore-kiran-nagarkar/story-NrP2MiU1ObqKcpG7CaNUAN_amp.html |access-date=6 September 2019 |work=[[Hindustan Times]] |issue=2 |publisher=[[HT Media]] |date=17 March 2016 |language=en |archive-date=16 September 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210916193604/https://www.hindustantimes.com/art-and-culture/we-just-don-t-care-for-mumbai-anymore-kiran-nagarkar/story-NrP2MiU1ObqKcpG7CaNUAN_amp.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Bhattacharya |first1=Chandrima S. |title=Duty to protest: Author |url=https://www.telegraphindia.com/india/duty-to-protest-author/cid/1509437 |access-date=6 September 2019 |work=www.telegraphindia.com |agency=[[The Telegraph (Kolkata)|The Telegraph]] |issue=1 |publisher=[[ABP Group]] |date=29 October 2015 |location=[[Calcutta]], [[West Bengal]], [[India]] |language=en |archive-date=6 September 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190906080202/https://www.telegraphindia.com/india/duty-to-protest-author/cid/1509437 |url-status=live }}</ref> a [[Far-right politics|far-right]] political party;<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-21384169|title=The sharp end of Indian politics|last1=Preston|first1=Alex|date=10 February 2013|work=British Broadcasting Corporation News|access-date=6 September 2019|publisher=[[BBC]]|agency=[[BBC News]]|issue=1|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161120021617/http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-21384169|archive-date=20 November 2016|url-status=live|author1-link=Alex Preston (author)}}</ref> [[Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh]] (RSS) and [[Hindu Mahasabha]].<ref name="Party Ban">{{cite book |last1=Purandare |first1=Vaibhav |editor1-last=Sundarji |editor1-first=Padma Rao |editor2-last=Dasgupta |editor2-first=Shrabani |editor3-last=Mathpal |editor3-first=Sanjeev |editor4-last=Sahadevan |editor4-first=Shaji |title=Bal Thackeray and the rise of Shiv Sena |date=2012 |publisher=Roli Books Private Limited |location=[[Mumbai, Maharashtra]] |isbn=9788174369918 |pages=288 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JS1hBAAAQBAJ&q=bedtime+story+banned+kiran+shiv+sena&pg=PT122 |access-date=6 September 2019 |language=en |quote=In 1977-78, the [Shiv Sena] party, along with the RSS and the Hindu Mahasabha, extra-legally banned ''Bedtime Story'', a play written by Kiran Nagarkar.}}</ref> He warned about censorship faced by India in his introduction to the play: "Legal censorship in India can often be gauche, club-footed and hyper-protective of anything and everything but the freedoms of speech and expression. Extra-legal censorship in the country, however, is fearless and effective. It successfully prevented Bedtime Story from being performed for seventeen years."<ref name="Banned3" />
In a 2018 interview, Nagarkar did not appear to be concerned about [[Censorship in India|censorship]] in the country. He recalled past incidents when radical groups in Mumbai had threatened to prevent his play from staging. Nagarkar stated, "these things happen from time to time, and only then can we be assured that art is still living."<ref name="Silverscreen" />

Nagarkar's theatre work also includes ''Kabirache Kay Karayche'' and ''Stranger Amongst Us'', and his screenplay work includes ''The Broken Circle'', ''The Widow and Her Friends'', and ''The Elephant on the Mouse'', a film for children.<ref name="Silverscreen" /><ref name="marathi.thewire" /> He played the role of Brother Bono as a [[cameo appearance]] in [[Dev Benegal]]'s Movie ''[[Split Wide Open]]''.<ref name="tribuneindia">{{cite news |title=The Sunday Tribune - Spectrum - Wide Angle |url=https://www.tribuneindia.com/2000/20000402/spectrum/angle.htm |access-date=7 September 2019 |work=tribuneindia.com |date=2 April 2000 |archive-date=13 March 2005 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050313232841/http://www.tribuneindia.com/2000/20000402/spectrum/angle.htm |url-status=live }}</ref>

==Awards and honours==
[[File:Kiran Nagarkar, Marathi and English writer, India.jpg|thumb|Kiran Nagarkar at the [[Chandigarh Literati|Chandigarh Literature Festival]] in 2010]]
Kiran Nagarkar was awarded the [[Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany]] and Sahitya Akademi Award among others. He also received the [[Rockefeller grant]] and a scholarship from the city of Munich.<ref name="born storyteller" />
* 2001: [[Sahitya Akademi Award]], winner, ''[[Cuckold (book)|Cuckold]]''<ref name=sa/>
* 2012: [[Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany]]. It is described as the 'highest tribute Germany can pay to individuals'.<ref name=ani>{{cite web|url=http://www.aninews.in/newsdetail2/story83289/germany-confers-cross-of-order-of-merit-to-babasaheb-kalyani-kiran-nagarkar.html |title=Germany confers Cross of Order of Merit, to Babasaheb Kalyani, Kiran Nagarkar |work=[[Asian News International|ANI]] |author=Staff writer |date=7 November 2012 |access-date=18 February 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121109233752/http://www.aninews.in/newsdetail2/story83289/germany-confers-cross-of-order-of-merit-to-babasaheb-kalyani-kiran-nagarkar.html |archive-date= 9 November 2012 |author-link=Staff writer }}</ref>
* 2013: [[The Hindu Literary Prize]], shortlist, ''The Extras''<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.thehindu.com/books/the-hindu-literary-prize-goes-to-jerry-pinto/article4425328.ece |title=The Hindu Literary Prize goes to Jerry Pinto |newspaper=[[The Hindu]] |author=Staff writer |date=17 February 2013 |access-date=18 February 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130220192109/http://www.thehindu.com/books/the-hindu-literary-prize-goes-to-jerry-pinto/article4425328.ece |archive-date=20 February 2013 |url-status=live |author-link=Staff writer }}</ref>

==Works==
'''Novels'''
* 1974: ''Seven Sixes are Forty Three'' (tr. of ''Saat Sakkam Trechalis''). Translated by Shubha Slee. Pub. Heinemann, 1995. {{ISBN|0-435-95088-6}}.<ref name="HinduDeath" />
* 1994: ''Ravan and Eddie''<ref name="HinduDeath" />
* 1997: ''[[Cuckold (book)|Cuckold]]''<ref name="HinduDeath" />
* 2006: ''God's Little Soldier''<ref name="marathi.thewire" />
* 2012: ''The Extras''<ref name="HinduDeath" />
* 2015: ''Rest in Peace''<ref name="HinduDeath" />
* 2017: ''[[Jasoda: A Novel]]''<ref name="marathi.thewire" />
* 2019: ''The Arsonist''<ref name="HinduDeath" />
[[File:Kiran Nagarkar, Marathi and English language writer, India 2.jpg|thumb|Kiran Nagarkar at [[Chandigarh Literature Festival]] in 2016]]
'''Plays and screenplays'''
* 1978: ''Bedtime Story''<ref name="marathi.thewire" />
* ''Kabirache Kay Karayche''<ref name="marathi.thewire">{{cite news |last1=टीम |first1=द वायर मराठी |title=कादंबरीकार किरण नगरकर यांचे निधन |url=https://marathi.thewire.in/novalist-kiran-nagarkar-passes-away |access-date=6 September 2019 |work=द वायर मराठी |date=5 September 2019}}</ref>
* ''Stranger Amongst Us''<ref name="dnaindia">{{cite news |last1=Bose |first1=Ishani |title=The critics gave me absolutely no support: Writer of Bed Time Story Kiran Nagarkar |url=https://www.dnaindia.com/lifestyle/report-the-critics-gave-me-absolutely-no-support-writer-of-bed-time-story-kiran-nagarkar-1905916 |access-date=6 September 2019 |work=DNA India |date=20 October 2013 |language=en |archive-date=6 September 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190906155740/https://www.dnaindia.com/lifestyle/report-the-critics-gave-me-absolutely-no-support-writer-of-bed-time-story-kiran-nagarkar-1905916 |url-status=live }}</ref>
* ''The Broken Circle''<ref name="Silverscreen">{{cite news |last1=March 7 |first1=Vinayak Mohan On |title=A Conversation With Kiran Nagarkar On Art, Language & Freedom Of Expression |url=https://silverscreen.in/features/in-conversation-with-kiran-nagarkar-an-essential-name-from-the-contemporary-indian-writing/ |access-date=6 September 2019 |work=Silverscreen.in |date=7 March 2018 |archive-date=6 September 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190906160108/https://silverscreen.in/features/in-conversation-with-kiran-nagarkar-an-essential-name-from-the-contemporary-indian-writing/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>
* ''The Widow and Her Friends''<ref name="Silverscreen" />
* ''The Elephant on the Mouse''<ref name="Silverscreen" />
* ''Black Tulip''<ref name="Banned3"/>

==See also==
* [[List of Indian writers]]
* [[Shyam Benegal]]
* [[Tapan Kumar Pradhan]]
* [[Dia Mirza]]

==Notes==
{{Reflist}}

==References==
* Yasmeen Lukhmani, ed. ''The Shifting Worlds of Kiran Nagarkar's Fiction'', Indialog Publications, New Delhi, 2004 {{ISBN|81-87981-59-8}}
* {{cite book |title=South Asian novelists in English: an A-to-Z guide|last=Sanga |first=Jaina C. |year=2003|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|isbn=0-313-31885-9|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qlpKOzsOc-IC&q=Kiran+Nagarkar&pg=PA177 |ref=Sa }}
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20151224132449/http://www.sify.com/news/kiran-nagarkar-on-extras-sexual-repression--humourless-indians-imagegallery-features-mirqQMdbbhg.html Kiran Nagarkar on Extras, sexual repression & humourless Indians]

==External links==
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* [http://www.kirannagarkar.com/ Kiran Nagarkar The Unofficial Website] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190824011812/http://kirannagarkar.com/ |date=24 August 2019 }}
* [http://www.anothersubcontinent.com/nagarkar.html Kiran Nagarkar on Another Subcontinent]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20120405075208/http://www.tehelka.com/story_main27.asp?filename=hub170307Readings.asp On Sanity Hazards of Being an Indian Writer at Tehelka]
* [http://www.signandsight.com/features/862.html On bombings in Mumbai]
;Interviews
* [https://jaiarjun.blogspot.com/2006/04/killing-sacred-cows-kiran-nagarkar-and.html Kiran Nagarkar Interview on Jaberwock]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20060314233118/http://www.hindu.com/lr/2006/03/05/stories/2006030500320100.htm Hindu Interview by Kalpana Sharma]
* {{usurped|[https://web.archive.org/web/20110606120310/http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/mp/2006/04/13/stories/2006041301200100.htm Hindu Interview by Sangita Pishorty]}}
* [http://www.rediff.com/news/2001/feb/26inter.htm Rediff Interview]
* [http://www.anothersubcontinent.com/kn1.html Kiran Nagarkar Interview on Another Subcontinent]
* [http://specials.rediff.com/news/2006/may/02kiran1.htm Kiran Nagarkar: God's Little Soldier by Lindsay Pereira]
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XhQQkWcJzfc Arts.21 {{!}} Between Berlin and Bombay â The Indian Writer Kiran Nagarkar]

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